Of course they want the water. More and more. And why not. Once you get it, or are promised it, you can sell it to developers.
The peripheral canal lives folks. Although it was voted down years ago, Arnold's backers and the feds have been working together in near secrecy to build it anyway.
Oh! And nightingale helped them by taking up their cause like a perfect useful idiot.
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Two farmers in central California's parched western valley are proposing to sell much of the irrigation water they get from the state to urban developers in Southern California.
The proposed $11.7 million deal would transfer 1,998 acre-feet of water from two Kings County growers' land to Tejon Ranch Co. The company is planning a sprawling urban development along Interstate 5, south of Bakersfield.
Tejon Ranch would pay $5,850 per acre-foot, which is the amount of water that floods an acre of land to a depth of one foot.
The two hopeful sellers, 3R Land and Development and Donald Jackson, grow stone fruit trees and own land within the Dudley Ridge Water District.
Treasurer Rick Besecker said the sale likely will be approved at the district's Dec. 8 meeting
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